Portland had a crack epidemic, too.

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When picking a backdrop for tales of inner-city struggle, authors often end up in New York or Chicago. For his debut novel, The Residue Years (Bloomsbury,
352 pages, $17), which is set amid the mi
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Who wrote Holden Caulfield?

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When it comes to peddling teen angst, few writers of young
adult fiction have the qualifications of Frank Portman. With 30 years
of fronting Berkeley pop-punk band the Mr. T Experience under his
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#whitepeopleproblems.

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There is suffering in the well-appointed kitchens and cozy dens of the American middle class. The Myths of Happiness, a new book by Sonja Lyubomirsky, seeks to address the malaise we feel when we’re
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